Showtime meeting. Bring your turned item to show and discuss, you can bring more than one item, though depending on the number of pieces you may have to chose the pieces you want to discuss most!
Report on our meeting 17-04-2025 organized by Keith Brown.
Our meeting on Thursday 17th April 2025 was organized by Keith Brown, Keith’s theme for the evening was making wooden Platters or Shallow Bowls. He had arranged for all of the club’s lathes to be in use, each of them making a Platter or Shallow Bowl and all with a different take on the subject.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 17-04-2025 organized by Keith Brown.”Minutes of committee meeting April 2025
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Report on our meeting 03-04-2025 the first of our shield competitions for 2025.
In charge of competitions for the club is David Hobson, the subject matter for this competition was to make a money box, all 3 categories of members were tasked with the same remit. This was not as easy as it first appears the making of a money box using a lathe requires some considerable consideration, and there were precious few examples on line for you to copy, this was going to be very interesting to see exactly what the members would come up with.
Continue reading “Report on our meeting 03-04-2025 the first of our shield competitions for 2025.”Updated Programme for 2025
The programme remains provisional as we use opportunities that arise throughout the year. Please click here for the latest
Our next meeting.
Next Meeting. Thursday 3rd April 6.45pm.
Joint venture by Alan Geddes and Nick Simpson. 1st Shield Competition for 2025 handled by Nick Simpson. The subject matter for the competition is Money Boxes.
Continue reading “Our next meeting.”Report on our latest meeting 20-03-2025 a solo presentation by Dave Line.
Our latest meeting on Thursday 20th March was a solo presentation by Dave Line on the art of Segmented or Polychromatic assemblies. This art relies on using many pieces of woods of various colours that have to be cut to very accurate tolerances in order to make some of the items featured here.
Continue reading “Report on our latest meeting 20-03-2025 a solo presentation by Dave Line.”Calendar Updates
One or two members told the secretary that the dates on the website were not adjusted to the change in competition date. Bob assures you that he did check when he got home and all seems to be correct. The amended dates were published on 11th March. He assumes that you may not have refreshed the page from a previous viewing.
Next Meeting. Thursday 3rd April 6.45pm.
Joint venture by Alan Geddes and Nick Simpson. 1st Shield Competition for 2025 handled by Nick Simpson. The subject matter for the competition is Money Boxes
Meeting. Thursday 20th 6.45pm
Arranged by Dave Line, he did a solo presentation on the art of segmented turning including how the layers are made up.